Transcript Student Success is Everyone’s Job

Student Career
Success is
Everyone’s Job
Yolanda Dueñas &
Shannon Muir
Rita Jones
OUTLINE
• Career Planning Process
• Linking Classrooms to Careers
• Workplace Skills Employers Want
• California Career Café Website
CAREER PLANNING PROCESS
Step 1:
SelfAssessment
Step 3:
Make a
Decision
Step 2:
Explore
Careers
Step 4.
Career Action
Plan
Step #1
SELF-ASSESSMENT
• Interests
▫ Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
• Personality
▫ Myers Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI)
• Skills
▫ Iseek.org/careers/skillsAssessment
• Values
▫ vawizard.org/vccs/CareerImportance.action
Step #2
EXPLORE CAREERS
Research majors, job descriptions, educational & training
requirements, salary, outlook, skills working conditions,
personal qualities, etc.
• Campus Career Center Library
• Career Exploration Websites
• Informational Interviewing, Job Shadowing
• What Can I do with a Major in…Connecting majors
with careers
• Take some intro courses of interest
Step #3
DECISION MAKING
1. Narrow down and identify career
options based on assessment results and
occupational research information.
2. Weigh the Pros and Cons of identified
career options
3. Make a Decision: What career are you
going to choose? What major or training
program are you going to choose?
Step #4
CAREER ACTION PLAN
• Plan: Meet with a Counselor and
develop a SEP for your chosen
major
• Prepare: Resume/Cover Letter,
and Interviewing Skills
• Get Experience: Internships,
Volunteer or entry level parttime/summer positions in their
chosen field of study.
• Network: Join a Professional
Association (cacareercafe.com)
Linked-In Profile
LINKING
CLASSROOMS TO
CAREERS
Yolanda Dueñas
What Does Your Campus Offer?
• Get to know the counseling and career services
on your campus & build relationships
• Invite Career Center
Specialist/Coordinator/Counselor to your class
• Is there an Employments Services Office?
• Is there an Internship Program offered?
Classroom Activity
Extra Credit & Ideas
• What is your story? Tell them your experience
• Invite Guest Speakers
• Informational Interview
• Research and Write a Career Reflection Paper
Research & Share: Have students select different
careers or jobs in the discipline you are teaching
• Career Passport Project
Include Career Resource
Websites in your Syllabus
• Campus Career Center Website
• Website links of
“What Can I do with a Major in”….?
• Job & Internships Websites
• CaCareerCafe, CareerOneStop,
ONETcenter.org,
Workplace Skills
Employers Want
Shannon Muir
THE TOP TEN LIST OF
people
skills
EMPLOYERS WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE…
Virtual Career Center
for California
Community College
Students
Rita Jones
Q&A
Yolanda Dueñas &
Shannon Muir
Rita Jones